Vancouver’s Unbounce has named Greg Dos Santos as Chief Financial Officer. Dos Santos comes to Unbounce with over 20 years of financial leadership experience in the technology industry for growing Software as a Service (SaaS) and professional services companies. “Greg is a modern CFO. His decades of experience leading global financial teams, mergers and acquisitions, […]
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What Does It Take To Be A Winning Tech Startup In BC?
The future is bright in North America’s top large city of the future. B.C.’s tech scene, much of it based out of Vancouver, just keeps winning with companies like Dapper Labs and Clio announcing huge funding rounds. However, many of those “overnight success” stories were actually years in the making. Who’s the next big winner? […]
Google Selects Vancouver’s SafetyDocs For Women Founders Accelerator
Four Canadian startups are among the 12 chosen to participate in the second Google for Startups Accelerator: Women Founders program cohort. The Women Founders accelerator is open to tech startups in the seed to Series A stages, with headquarters in Canada or the United States. The program is designed for companies with women founders, or […]
Optical Imagery-focused EarthDaily Analytics Emerges From UrtheCast With AWS Partner Status
Vancouver’s EarthDaily Analytics is now an Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Partner in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN). EarthDaily is a provider of satellite Earth Observation processing services and analytics. EarthDaily’s satellite technology provides evidence-based, actionable insights for addressing some of the world’s greatest challenges, from sustainable agriculture and disaster management to climate […]
Semios Acquires Agworld To Form Global AgTech Powerhouse
Vancouver AgTech company Semios has acquired Australia’s Agworld, a global leader in farm information management. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Perth, Agworld allows growers to track and share relevant field and reportable data with farmers, advisors and third parties to inform future farming and operational decision-making. Together, Semios and Agworld will form one of the largest […]
LifeBooster Lands GORE-TEX As Investor, Plans To Introduce Co-branded Smart Workwear
Vancouver’s LifeBooster has closed an multi-million investment round from local, international, and strategic investors, including W.L. Gore. Gore? Yes, that Gore. Gore’s world-class GORE-TEX brand and expertise in high performance apparel is well known. The 63 year-old material science company invests nearly $400 million a year into R&D and recently named a Best Workplace for […]
Nextech AR Selected As An Early Access Partner for Google’s 3D AR Search Program
Vancouver’s Nextech AR have been named an early access partner for the Google 3D AR Search Program. With this, Nextech AR will grant exclusive early access of the 3D search program to its current Threedy.ai customers, which include some of the world’s largest furniture retailers – Kohl’s, Pier 1, Lighting Plus and Kmart Australia. With Nextech […]
Victoria’s Blockstream Joins Crypto Unicorns With USD $3.2 Billion Valuation
Victoria-based Bitcoin infrastructure firm Blockstream has raised USD $210 million as part of our Series B financing and has hit unicorn status with its latest valuation at USD $3.2 billion. The new capital will go towards accelerating their Bitcoin mining efforts and the acquisition of Spondoolies to launch an enterprise-grade miner, continuing to scale the […]
FORM Launches First-of-its-kind Guided Workouts Powered With Smart Swim Goggles
Thanks to Vancouver direct-to-consumer fitness technology startup FORM, swimmers can now be led through immersive workout swim experiences and access hundreds of workouts in an ever-expanding library. FORM announced the launch of a new Workouts feature today. The new feature guides swimmers through motivating workouts in real-time using the FORM goggles’ augmented reality display. Available […]
VFX Leader DNEG To Hire 100 In Vancouver For New Feature Animation Studio
Leading visual effects (VFX) and animation studio DNEG is expanding its Canada-based VFX and animation operations and talent pool. Founded in London in 1988, DNEG is the Academy Award nominated VFX studio behind films like Ex Machina, Inception Interstellar, and Tenet. DNEG is planning a new studio in Toronto that will initially employ up to […]